People
| since Jan 2023 | Group Leader within the Emmy-Noether program of the DFG Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (MPI-PKS) |
| 5/2022 - 12/2022 | Staff Scientist, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (MPI-PKS) |
| 8/2018 - 4/2022 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Flatiron Institute, New York |
| 9/2016 - 3/2017 | Visiting Researcher, University of Tokyo, with Prof. Synge Todo |
| 1/2014 - 12/2017 | Ph.D. student, University of Innsbruck, with Prof. Andreas M. Läuchli |
| 5/2016 - 5/2018 | Wissensdurst Festival Coordinator Innsbruck, Wissensdurst Festival |
| 2009-2014 | Studies of mathematics and geophysics Ludwigs Maximilians University of Munich Technical University of Munich University of Innsbruck |
Aritra Sinha
Postdoctoral researcher
Email: asinha[at]pks.mpg(dot)de
google scholar
| 9/23 - present | postdoc at MPIPKS in the condensed matter division with Alexander Wietek |
| 10/18 - 8/23 | Doctoral studies at Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland with Jacek Dziarmaga and Marek M. Rams |
| 2013-2018 | Integrated B.Sc.-M.Sc in Physics at National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India |
Interests: Trying to understand the physics of spinful fermionic toy models in two dimensions using tensor network states.
Martin Ulaga
Postdoctoral researcher
Email: martinu[at]pks.mpg(dot)de
google scholar
| 7/24 - present | postdoc at MPIPKS in the condensed matter division with Alexander Wietek |
| 1/2024 - 6/2024 | Research asisstant at Institute "Jožef Stefan", Ljubljana. |
| 10/2019 - 1/2024 | Young researcher at Institute "Jožef Stefan", Ljubljana. Supervised by Jure Kokalj and Jernej Mravlje. |
| 2013-2019 | University of Ljubljana, Faculty of mathematics and physics: Ba, Msc. |
Interests: transport, strongly correlated electrons, magnetism, numerical methods.
Xiaoxue Ran
Postdoctoral researcher
Email: xxran[at]pks.mpg(dot)de
google scholar
| 1/2026 - present | postdoc at MPIPKS in the condensed matter division with Alexander Wietek |
| 2021 - 2025 | PhD and research at the University of Hong Kong with Zi Yang Meng |
| 2013 - 2021 | B.Sc and M.Sc in in Physics, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou |
Interests: strongly correlated systems, numerical methods.
Luke Staszewski
Ph.D. student
Email: lstaszewski[at]pks.mpg(dot)de
| 10/22 - present | PhD and research at MPIPKS in the condensed matter division with Alexander Wietek |
| 2021-2022 | Academic tutor - physics and maths for undergraduate and high school students |
| 2017-21 | Ba/MSci - Undergraduate studies in physics at the University of Cambridge |
Interests: developing state of the art numerics to understand novel materials phase transitions
Hannes Karlsson
Ph.D. student
Email: hankarls[at]pks.mpg(dot)de
| 9/23 - present | PhD and research at MPIPKS in the condensed matter division with Alexander Wietek |
| 2021-2022 | Exchange Studies, EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne |
| 2018-2023 | B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Engineering Physics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm |
Interests: strongly correlated superconductors and matrix product states techniques
Rafael Soares
Ph.D Student
Email: soares[at]pks.mpg(dot)de
| 10/24 - present | PhD and research at MPIPKS in the condensed matter division with Alexander Wietek |
| 2022-2024 | Joint Master Program Quarmen: Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy | Universidade do Porto, Portugal | Université Paris-Saclay, France |
| 2019-2022 | B.Sc. in Physics, Universidade do Porto, Portugal |
Interests: many-body physics
Paul Ebert
Ph.D Student
Email: pebert@pks.mpg.de
| 02/25 - present | PhD and research at MPIPKS in the condensed matter division with Alexander Wietek |
| 2022-2025 | M.Sc. in Physics at Dresden University of Technology |
| 2019-2022 | B.Sc. in Mathematics at Chemnitz University of Technology |
| 2018-2021 | B.Sc. in Physics at Chemnitz University of Technology |